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Speaker 1: I'll start Toyota Presents off the Bench with Jacob Hester
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Speaker 1: and Matt Flynn.
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Speaker 2: Asday Hester and Hester.
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Speaker 1: From carrying each other to a natty to carrying each other.
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Speaker 2: On the air, control the.
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Speaker 1: Live from the Mercedes Benz of Baton Rouge studio.
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Speaker 2: It's off the bench, all right, welcome back.
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Speaker 3: Here, hour number three of ot B. It's gotta feel
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Speaker 3: it's going to continue to be the conversation.
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Speaker 4: It is what it is. It's the biggest news out there.
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Speaker 3: SEC going to nine games, three permanent opponents, the other
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Speaker 3: six are going to rotate. We have continued to try
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Speaker 3: hearing the breaks to put together our final OTB stands
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Speaker 3: on the three teams, We're still not there.
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Speaker 4: We'll get there eventually.
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Speaker 3: But and this also like, it's not like we keep
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Speaker 3: using Mississippi State, Kentucky Vandy because that's the one I've
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Speaker 3: seen the most out there of Hey, let's play the
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Speaker 3: three easy. It's now that can also rotate. Vanderbilt certainly
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Speaker 3: wouldn't have been in the bottom three a year ago.
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Speaker 3: Those years, Kentucky would not have been in the bottom three.
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Speaker 3: I mean, Kentucky has won ten games in the last
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Speaker 3: couple of years. Remember going to Kentucky was at twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty one, and Kentucky put the SmackDown on LSU.
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Speaker 4: So like that's not always going to be the case.
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Speaker 3: But when I say those teams, it's not even that conversation,
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Speaker 3: it's those teams don't They don't really do any They
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Speaker 3: don't really move the needle for you, like no matter
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Speaker 3: how good or how bad they are. Right now, currently
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Speaker 3: we're talking about Oklahoma, like the SEC kind of showed
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Speaker 3: you that they want to make that a thing. Okay,
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Speaker 3: maybe it does happen, Maybe there's something there. They've played
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Speaker 3: for a national championship in three I've had some big games,
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Speaker 3: they played in a College Football Playoffs semi final. But
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Speaker 3: it's like, right now, even that game in Oklahoma is
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Speaker 3: one of, if not the most successful college football programs
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Speaker 3: like in the totality history of college football. But it's like,
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Speaker 3: still don't have those memories yet, you don't have those
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Speaker 3: moments even though you've played them for a national championship.
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Speaker 3: And so it's not just picking on those three schools.
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Speaker 3: The schools that we're talking about right those are teams
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Speaker 3: that you've had hate for, you have memories for, you
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Speaker 3: have core memories you have moments that immediately come to
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Speaker 3: your brain. I mean growing up watching LSU touchdown Tommy
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Speaker 3: Banks in nineteen ninety seven, Like I remember exactly where
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Speaker 3: I was for that moment, like when he scored and
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Speaker 3: being in the Sports Illustrated, I thought the coolest person
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Speaker 3: in the world.
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Speaker 4: Kind of still do. Kevin Falk.
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Speaker 3: Kemp Falk was the coolest person in the world when
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Speaker 3: I watched him in the Independence Ball. It's like, there
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Speaker 3: is not a cooler person right now in this world
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Speaker 3: than Kevin Falk, right, and like some of those moments
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Speaker 3: that you watch him against Florida.
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Speaker 4: So that's what we're talking about.
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Speaker 3: It's not just what they are on the field, because again,
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Speaker 3: the three teams that everybody's talking about, they've had moments
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Speaker 3: where they've not been the three worst teams in the SEC.
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Speaker 3: It's the teams that you've got this history with of
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Speaker 3: bad blood, of great games, of you know, players from
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Speaker 3: the other team that you can just you say their
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Speaker 3: name and it creates this motion like, man, God, Brandon Spikes,
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Speaker 3: that's son of a gun man. I can't you know,
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Speaker 3: Like That's what I'm talking about, And you just don't
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Speaker 3: have that with those other teams, and so that's what
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Speaker 3: we're trying to come up with, the three teams that
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Speaker 3: create those emotions, because that's what you want every single
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Speaker 3: year on your schedule.
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Speaker 5: At the end of the day, it's probably like a
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Speaker 5: it's probably a short term situation anyway, when we think
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Speaker 5: about the totality of college football, I mean, whether it's
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Speaker 5: five years, ten years, whatever it is, like cause you
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Speaker 5: would think eventually SEC is going to add two more teams,
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Speaker 5: for more teams, six more teams as these mega conferences
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Speaker 5: start to expand, you would think that that's probably the
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Speaker 5: way that things will go. So they'll have to re
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Speaker 5: align the your all these teams again at some point.
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Speaker 5: So I mean we're probably not talking about the next
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Speaker 5: thirty year opponents either. And with nine games, I mean
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Speaker 5: you are getting a spattering of everybody. So even if
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Speaker 5: you know what the games don't line up exactly how
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Speaker 5: you want it to or how you think they should,
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Speaker 5: I mean you're still going to get everybody. What was
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Speaker 5: the what was the breakdown again of how they're going
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Speaker 5: to schedule home and aways for your the non three
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Speaker 5: teams that you're playing every single year, you're playing every
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Speaker 5: everybody will play at every stadium, right, if you're a
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Speaker 5: freshman play, Yeah, four years, you'll be at every stadium.
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Speaker 5: That's a that's a beauty about how it should be.
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Speaker 5: That's exactly how it should be. That's the beauty of adding.
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Speaker 5: I love that they're adding the next game. I know
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Speaker 5: we can debate who and why and you know, whatever
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Speaker 5: it is. But like the fact that we're going to
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Speaker 5: nine SEC games.
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Speaker 4: I love it. I love it.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I know we had we had the eight, but
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Speaker 5: it eliminates one other game. And hopefully they keep the
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Speaker 5: mandate that you do have to have a power powerful
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Speaker 5: or powerful whatever it is. I don't know, is it what?
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Speaker 4: What is it? What? How does it read? Right now
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Speaker 4: you have to play power four, you have to play
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Speaker 4: at least one powerful in conference theme.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, hopefully they keep that because those those games are
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Speaker 5: amazing too. Like the fact that we are going out
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Speaker 5: there and playing at Clemson home in a way, which
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Speaker 5: is which is fantastic. So I want I want to
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Speaker 5: see those games, but I'd like to see everybody. Everybody
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Speaker 5: do that, uh tiboeau, I I do.
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Speaker 3: I do see your point, I understand it, but I
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Speaker 3: want them every year, he said, Just I just want
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Speaker 3: to point out that just because a team isn't your
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Speaker 3: permanent opponent doesn't mean you'll never play that again.
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Speaker 4: I know that. I know that, but I want to
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Speaker 4: play them every year. To a point, play them every
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Speaker 4: single year.
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Speaker 3: Want every player's ever played for Florida to nobody else
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Speaker 3: who's all about Yeah, and certainly in the year, in
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Speaker 3: the time that we're in of one year rentals.
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Speaker 4: I want everybody every year, every single year. I get it.
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Speaker 4: I know you're gonna be in a rotation, I get it.
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Speaker 4: I just want them every year.
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Speaker 5: I want to be able to punch him in the
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Speaker 5: face every single year. And of course I'm a quarterback,
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Speaker 5: so that's metaphorically speaking. You want somebody else to punch
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Speaker 5: him in the punch him the face. Why I throw
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Speaker 5: it passes, it's obviously I don't you know. I'm not
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Speaker 5: getting in the fray. I'm not going to get in
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Speaker 5: the fight and smoke. But I'll talk to you know
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Speaker 5: what to him.
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Speaker 6: But you're the hold me back guy.
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Speaker 4: Hold me back exactly like, aren't you'll hold me back?
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Speaker 4: I don't want to do this. Everyone's just watching hold
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Speaker 4: me back? Nah, dude, you got it. Oh man, this
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Speaker 4: is awkward. I like this from two d lad.
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Speaker 3: We don't have Texas on the regular season schedule this year,
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Speaker 3: but we will play them in Atlanta come December. You know,
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Speaker 3: he no, you know, eventually we are going to have
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Speaker 3: to give three teams. We eight, you know, are we are?
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Speaker 3: We are we settling Florida and Old Miss It is
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Speaker 3: our official stance.
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Speaker 4: I think, so.
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Speaker 3: Do we want to go Florida Old miss A and
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Speaker 3: m Florida Old Miss Alabama?
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Speaker 4: I just think it's too big of a game. This
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Speaker 4: isn't what we'd rather. It's kind of what we like,
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Speaker 4: what we think, and what we think. I don't know.
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Speaker 4: I think it'll be I think they'll give us.
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Speaker 6: Wait, this isn't what we want. This is what we
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Speaker 6: think the SEC.
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Speaker 4: Florida. Should we do what we want? I thought that's
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Speaker 4: what we were doing. Then it goes Florida Bama.
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Speaker 6: Yeah no, no, no, Florida.
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Speaker 4: I mean I'd rather than Ole Miss, would you would? Yeah? Yeah?
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Speaker 5: Jackson Dark's good. Is like they really missed an opportunity
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Speaker 5: last year. It's like they screwed that one up.
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Speaker 4: Lane's got a lot to prove.
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Speaker 7: I mean that's what we talked about when we ranked
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Speaker 7: them in the o TV poll though, like.
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Speaker 6: Get over the hump.
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Speaker 7: He was handed a playoff team, not handed, but he
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Speaker 7: had a playoff team last season.
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Speaker 4: Yeah we said it.
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Speaker 3: Not now then when y'all watched him play, Yeah for
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Speaker 3: the giants'ready the best quarterback on that team, hands down.
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Speaker 4: I don't think you can.
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Speaker 3: I don't think couldn't make the playoffs with him and
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Speaker 3: that roster you had.
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Speaker 8: You had Amos who went in the second dB. So
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Speaker 8: Chris Paul at linebacker was a really good player for you.
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Speaker 5: Just for that fact, let's kick them out of our list.
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Speaker 4: I'm good with it.
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Speaker 5: Take Yeah, I mean that was I mean, and he
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Speaker 5: was playing college football six months ago. Seven months ago.
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Speaker 5: It's not like it's not like he's matured and got
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Speaker 5: become a much better quarterback in that time frame.
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Speaker 4: He's just that good. He's just that good.
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Speaker 6: Ole miss is seventeen and the OT people.
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Speaker 4: Actually had had him hiring.
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Speaker 6: I think I put them at seventeen, did you? I
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Speaker 6: think so it's.
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Speaker 4: About where a lot of people think they got. You
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Speaker 4: had seventeen, went sixteen fifteen. I think that, uh. I
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Speaker 4: think they running back questions too, which for.
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Speaker 8: Him a year ago, they couldn't run the ball a
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Speaker 8: year ago, and they're probably less talented.
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Speaker 4: Lane told me that, he said, we couldn't run the
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Speaker 4: ball like we needed to.
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Speaker 3: That's why we lost against Kentucky and LSU straight up
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Speaker 3: didn't didn't sugarcoat it.
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Speaker 5: I think Ole Miss and Miami are going to be
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Speaker 5: similar teams this year, and I think they're going to
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Speaker 5: realize how good their quarterbacks were last year and it's
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Speaker 5: going to affect their win loss record pretty severely. That's
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Speaker 5: what I think. I think they're gonna be similar. I
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Speaker 5: think they're going to have a pretty big step back.
9:59
Speaker 5: Who is the SEC Coach of the Year. I'm going
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Speaker 5: to Eli drink Witz.
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Speaker 3: The coach is never going to be the coach that
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Speaker 3: goes and does what he's supposed to do.
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Speaker 6: That's true.
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Speaker 3: If that was the case, Nick Saban would have fifteen
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Speaker 3: SEC Coach of the Year trophies in his office.
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Speaker 4: He does not.
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Speaker 3: It is the coach that, hey, we thought you were
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Speaker 3: gonna be kind of bad, turns out you were not
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Speaker 3: so bad. You're actually sort of good, and now you're
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Speaker 3: gonna get Coach of the Year. That's what that That's
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Speaker 3: what that award goes to. Unless you have like a
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Speaker 3: year like you know coach O in twenty nineteen that
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Speaker 3: he got it. That's maybe the best college football team ever.
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Speaker 3: They're gonna give you that award. But like coach Saban
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Speaker 3: had gotten to a point where it's like, you're not
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Speaker 3: getting this anymore, Kirby, You're not getting it anymore.
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Speaker 4: It's gonna be Ali.
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Speaker 8: Drinkwitz, speaking of Missouri Eli at the beginning of the week,
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Speaker 8: said I'm close to the name of the starting QB. Yesterday
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Speaker 8: he came out and did the opposite. He said, Boat
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Speaker 8: Prabula and Sam Horn are both going to play in
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Speaker 8: the opener and essentially winner take all he wants to
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Speaker 8: see him in game experience to he still didn't have
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Speaker 8: a starting quarterback. Yeah, Now was that good or bad?
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Speaker 8: Like you brought in Prabula to be your starter? Is
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Speaker 8: he underperforming? Or has Sam Horn raised? There's always two
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Speaker 8: sides to look at it that way.
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Speaker 4: I'm going to predict that Shane Biemer will wait the
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Speaker 4: coach of the Year.
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Speaker 8: I thought Shane Beamer too, but they got they got
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Speaker 8: a little expectations like I don't.
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Speaker 4: I guess I'll go Beamer too.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but they're they're in a spot of their expectation
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Speaker 3: where if they stay right where they're at right now,
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Speaker 3: then he'll probably be a Coach.
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Speaker 4: Of the Year.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I just I believe in Sellers, and I
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Speaker 5: think we've talked a lot about him, like if he
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Speaker 5: is in the Heisman hunt, that means they're having a
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Speaker 5: really good season, and that means Shane Beamer. And again,
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Speaker 5: I was impressed listening to him. I'm always kind of
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Speaker 5: impressed by his interviews and the way he handles himself carrys.
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Speaker 5: I think he looks good with the media, and I
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Speaker 5: think it looks presents himself in a good fashion.
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Speaker 4: And I think they got a really good quarterback. Honestly,
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Speaker 4: I think Billy Napier's got a shot.
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Speaker 8: I mean, if DJ Lagway could stay healthy, which I
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Speaker 8: actually think his health is a big concern. I mean
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Speaker 8: we thought he was a dead man walking a year ago,
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Speaker 8: Like everybody thought he was gonna get fired. He actually
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Speaker 8: had a pretty good run there at the end of
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Speaker 8: the year. He takes down LSU. Like, if they can
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Speaker 8: build off of that and go eating four nine and three,
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Speaker 8: I mean, that's that's exceeding expectations based on their schedule. Yeah,
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Speaker 8: he almost did.
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Speaker 5: That last year he's won, like DJ Lagway kneed to
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Speaker 5: it us away from not being very good.
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Speaker 4: Lagway's first eleven on eleven was Tuesday. Yep. Keep in
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Speaker 4: mind he.
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Speaker 8: Didn't participate in spring, and then his first eleven on
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Speaker 8: eleven in fall was Tuesday.
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Speaker 4: You're a week from the first game. It's against Long Island.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I get it.
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Speaker 5: Cope South Richard and he says it gonna be Sark
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Speaker 5: because he's attached to man in.
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Speaker 4: These arcs. Goat Coach of the Year National.
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Speaker 5: Last year two hundred yards passing for ARC manning game one.
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Speaker 4: Over right right around that two. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Last year it was a split SEC Coach of the
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Speaker 3: Year between Shane.
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Speaker 4: Biemer and Clark Lee. You can split that award, uh yeah,
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Speaker 4: card and half.
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Speaker 3: So Clark Lee won the SEC Coaches Coach of the
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Speaker 3: Year and Shane Biemer won the A P and USA
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Speaker 3: Today SEC Coach.
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Speaker 4: Of the Year. That's the L S U, U s
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Speaker 4: C situation. It is. There's only one. It's both the
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Speaker 4: White House. I don't go to the.
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Speaker 3: White House for that. But again, there's one Crystal Ball
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Speaker 3: and it's some miles.
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Speaker 4: Up the road but right near the Mississippi River. Clark
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Speaker 4: Lee could be in this conversation too. If our boy.
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Speaker 7: Diego pop, Yeah, because I'm sitting here trying to think
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Speaker 7: who I think is gonna exceed expectations, and I don't
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Speaker 7: know if Vanderbilt will, but Clark Lee's here's one.
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Speaker 3: Of the things that we have to remember, and I
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Speaker 3: know we talked about it often. The teams that are
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Speaker 3: not at the top. So the teams that actually are
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Speaker 3: at the top Texas, Georgia and Alabama as far as
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Speaker 3: the first three teams ranked in the SEC, we don't
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Speaker 3: know what we're going to get at quarterback. We don't
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Speaker 3: like we think we know with Arch, but we don't know.
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Speaker 3: Can Ty Simpson be a good player?
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Speaker 4: Hey can be.
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Speaker 3: We don't know Ken Gunnar Stockton, same situation. But the
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Speaker 3: thing that's going to be interesting is being healthy. So
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Speaker 3: health is important. Obviously, Florida's got one. We certainly have
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Speaker 3: one at LSU, Oklahoma's got one. South Carolina's got one.
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Speaker 3: Like those teams that are in that that tier that's
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Speaker 3: maybe right underneath those other teams to a lot of
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Speaker 3: people across the country, Well, they've got the most important
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Speaker 3: position figured out. So the expectations that they have have
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Speaker 3: a higher ceiling, I think because they've got that position
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Speaker 3: figured out. Like the top teams right now, Ty Simpson
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Speaker 3: could go out there and be awful. Gunner Stockton can
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Speaker 3: go out there and just be a guy, right arch
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Speaker 3: Manny can just be good but not great. We've seen
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Speaker 3: the other quarterbacks. We have seen Lenora Sellers win a
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Speaker 3: game by himself. We have seen Garrett nus Meyer lead
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Speaker 3: LSU versus Old Miss when it looked like they were
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Speaker 3: left for dead on a touchdown drive to tie the game,
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Speaker 3: first playoff, overtime, game over, get off the field, and.
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Speaker 4: We know that.
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Speaker 3: So like to me, like that's what makes those teams
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Speaker 3: in those kind of like we're talking about, like in
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Speaker 3: that middle tier, because they've got the guy that can
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Speaker 3: go take over a game, get on a six game heater,
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Speaker 3: and those other teams they think they got their guy.
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Speaker 4: Certainly Texas does, but you just don't know. We're gonna
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Speaker 4: find out in.
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Speaker 5: a lot.
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Speaker 3: these situations when you're in Long Island, but I get
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Speaker 4: Let's go around the room right now.
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Speaker 3: The one thing that you want to see in the
19:38
Speaker 3: final tune up the last preseason game for the New
19:42
Speaker 3: Orleans Saints would be.
19:46
Speaker 4: I'm stealing it because I want to go first.
19:48
Speaker 3: I want to see protection for whoever's playing quarterback in
19:53
Speaker 3: the middle interior portion of the offensive line. I wanted
19:57
Speaker 3: to look like a professional football team offense of line.
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Speaker 3: I want the quarterback, whoever it is, to have the
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Speaker 3: chance and the opportunity to show what he can do
20:07
Speaker 3: because he has protection like he should in a National
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Speaker 3: Football League game. I want the offensive line to also
20:13
Speaker 3: open up holes for the running back, right I mean,
20:16
Speaker 3: reports are the Saints are looking to trade for a
20:18
Speaker 3: running back. I think you actually have a good running
20:21
Speaker 3: back room. The problem is you don't have spaces opened
20:25
Speaker 3: up for any of the running backs, and so I
20:28
Speaker 3: don't think you have a running back problem. I think
20:31
Speaker 3: you have an offensive line interior offensive line problem right now.
20:36
Speaker 3: Hopefully with Eric McCoy in there, it shores everything up.
20:38
Speaker 3: I think he is one of the best centers in
20:40
Speaker 3: the National Football League.
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Speaker 4: I need to see that. I want to see it.
20:44
Speaker 3: I need to see these quarterbacks with an actual NFL
20:47
Speaker 3: pocket and with a chance.
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Speaker 5: I want to see a running game. The best way
20:53
Speaker 5: to help a young quarterback out is the very capable
21:00
Speaker 5: in the running game be aggressive with it. I want
21:02
Speaker 5: to see run blocking. I want to see them pushing
21:05
Speaker 5: guys around. I don't know if it's gonna happen, but
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Speaker 5: that's what I'd like to see. And again, I don't
21:10
Speaker 5: think quarterback has been the issue in the preseason games
21:14
Speaker 5: on offense leading to this point, we've seen the quarterbacks
21:17
Speaker 5: make reads. We've seen them both make throws. We've seen
21:20
Speaker 5: them do good things. Now, whether they become really great
21:22
Speaker 5: quarterbacks is all going to come down to the fourth
21:25
Speaker 5: quarter of many games, and that's where good quarterbacks separate
21:28
Speaker 5: themselves in the fourth quarter.
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Speaker 4: We don't know what's going to happen in that situation
21:32
Speaker 4: until you get to the regular season.
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Speaker 5: But control the line of scrimmage from a running game standpoint,
21:37
Speaker 5: let the play action speak for itself.
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Speaker 4: That is the best way to help a young quarterback.
21:42
Speaker 4: I don't know if Caesar Rees is the guy.
21:44
Speaker 5: Okay, we've talked about it at nausea, like the mistake
21:47
Speaker 5: after mistake after mistake, right, I'd like to see somebody
21:50
Speaker 5: else step up with that right guard position. So that's
21:52
Speaker 5: what I want to see. It all has to do
21:53
Speaker 5: with the offensive line. I think we have capable running backs.
21:56
Speaker 5: I think we have capable quarterbacks. We have at least
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Speaker 5: a couple of capable receivers. You got a new one
22:03
Speaker 5: coming in, and we got a new one, big boy,
22:08
Speaker 5: twenty years old.
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Speaker 4: Older fella. It's fine, just seasoned, seasoned, that's right.
22:14
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what I would like to see, And of
22:16
Speaker 5: course I want to see the quarterbacks be efficient. But
22:18
Speaker 5: they've proven that already that they can be efficient. Now
22:20
Speaker 5: they're not gonna approve they can, but they're not gonna
22:22
Speaker 5: prove at this game if you're gonna be a long
22:25
Speaker 5: term starter or a great quarterback, because like I said,
22:28
Speaker 5: that's gonna come down to the game winning drives. It's
22:30
Speaker 5: gonna come down to how you play a big moment.
22:32
Speaker 5: So you don't get those big moments of preseason games.
22:34
Speaker 5: You just don't do it. You get third downs, you
22:36
Speaker 5: get red zone plays, but that's like really a judging
22:39
Speaker 5: and grady and how efficient you can be at work
22:41
Speaker 5: in the offense. We'll see when the regular season come down,
22:43
Speaker 5: which quarterback can make those like game changing plays and
22:46
Speaker 5: who can avoid the opposite type of game changing plays.
22:50
Speaker 5: But you can't do it without an offensive line. You
22:52
Speaker 5: can't do it without a running game. It ain't gonna happen.
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Speaker 4: Like that one. I think that certainly needs to happen.
22:58
Speaker 7: Alandra kind of ties in with y'all's a little bit
23:01
Speaker 7: because if all of that is working well, then we
23:04
Speaker 7: will score a touchdown in the first half like we
23:06
Speaker 7: have not done in the past.
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Speaker 4: Stupid.
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Speaker 6: I would love to see us get out in front.
23:16
Speaker 4: How about that.
23:17
Speaker 7: But also I want to see the defense kind of
23:19
Speaker 7: keep doing what it's doing. I mean, it's probably the
23:22
Speaker 7: strongest part of this team.
23:26
Speaker 4: Game giving up.
23:27
Speaker 7: Yeah, so I want them to stay consistent and hopefully
23:32
Speaker 7: healthy and just keep doing what they're doing. But yeah,
23:35
Speaker 7: keep it simple, stupid score a touchdown?
23:37
Speaker 4: Love that one in the first half. Yeah, please, I'll
23:39
Speaker 4: take any but yes, please, First we.
23:42
Speaker 6: Did until the fourth quarter last game.
23:45
Speaker 4: Heyday, interior d line.
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Speaker 8: As good as the defense have played, you got gashed
23:50
Speaker 8: in the run game a little bit, a little bit
23:52
Speaker 8: too much. If you can't run the ball and you
23:54
Speaker 8: can't stop the run, that is a recipe for disaster.
23:57
Speaker 8: Just ask the Dallas Cowboys who were lasting both last
23:59
Speaker 8: year year. I think the defense is a hole. Has
24:02
Speaker 8: done a good job, but those those tackles want to
24:04
Speaker 8: see a little bit more from them. But overall, I'm
24:07
Speaker 8: keeping an eye on the defense because we know the
24:09
Speaker 8: problems on offense.
24:14
Speaker 4: The whole team. How about that. Just just watch everything.
24:17
Speaker 8: The punting battle, the battle of They got a punter
24:21
Speaker 8: battle between James burn Up and Kay Kroger.
24:26
Speaker 4: Talk about that one time Kroger South Carolina. I think
24:30
Speaker 4: he went to sec BD days twice and ball.
24:37
Speaker 6: For maybe tell like he's.
24:41
Speaker 3: Yeah, the tackles are great, but if your guards suck,
24:46
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter, does not matter, and like you know,
24:49
Speaker 3: you'll be better at center because McCloy hadn't played.
24:52
Speaker 4: But those are your starting guards. They don't suck. You
24:54
Speaker 4: just have a lot to work on. They suck, said,
25:00
Speaker 4: don't suck. I mean, it's the difference Flynn.
25:04
Speaker 3: If you're in your five four or five whatever he's
25:07
Speaker 3: in in the NFL and you pass up a big
25:09
Speaker 3: guy to go to a little guy, I can't.
25:12
Speaker 5: They say that the jump you make from year five
25:16
Speaker 5: to six is one of the biggest in your career.
25:20
Speaker 4: They've always said it. We're waiting for it.
25:23
Speaker 3: They've always said, hey, let me pass up on this
25:25
Speaker 3: defensive tackle to go to a linebacker. No, poop, that's
25:29
Speaker 3: not my responsibility. Spencer Raler gets a face mask and
25:32
Speaker 3: that he just was trying not to give up the gap.
25:34
Speaker 3: There never know new offense, you know, Yeah, yep, just wait,
25:41
Speaker 3: he might be all pro by the end of the year.
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Speaker 3: So you've got Iowa State, Kansas State. Now, if you
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Speaker 3: I know UNOV like is a twenty six and a
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Speaker 4: To find these lines, I got it for you right here.
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Speaker 3: Iowa State, Kansas State minus three for Kansas State UNLV,
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Speaker 3: Idaho State, minus twenty six and a half for UNLV,
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Speaker 3: Fresno State and Kansas minus thirteen for the Jayhawks, Sam
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Speaker 3: Houston and Western Kentucky, minus ten and a half for
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Speaker 3: Western Kentucky, Stanford and Hawaii, minus two and a half
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Speaker 3: for Hawaii.
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Speaker 4: Shoure Are we all just pig in one? Yeah? All right?
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Speaker 4: I want Hawaii to cover the two and a half.
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Speaker 4: You want Hawaii to cover I want Hawaii to cover
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Speaker 4: the two and a half, all right? Oh man, God,
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Speaker 6: I'm leaning toward.
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Speaker 4: But I'm gonna go under fifty one and a half
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Speaker 5: I'm gonna go over sixty three and a half Boise State,
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Speaker 5: South Florida over. That's a technically weak one, is it really?
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Speaker 6: Mm okay, I'm gonna go Fresno State to cover.
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Speaker 3: You have Hawaii minus two and a half against Stanford.
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Speaker 3: next guest. It is our guy, Herb Benson, Associate Commissioner
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Speaker 4: Herb always a pleasure. We appreciate your time this morning.
33:58
Speaker 12: Good to join you guys. How you doing it?
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Speaker 3: One fantastic And throughout the show, as you can imagine,
34:02
Speaker 3: we've talked about the nine game SEC schedule and you
34:05
Speaker 3: and I get a chance to you know, hang out
34:07
Speaker 3: see each other down in Destin every year for the
34:09
Speaker 3: SEC Spring meetings, and I know this was a big
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Speaker 3: part of the conversation, so Herb, I was just like
34:15
Speaker 3: from that moment where you had you know, a lot
34:18
Speaker 3: of people were in favor of it, but you still
34:19
Speaker 3: had some that were asking questions, like from that moment
34:22
Speaker 3: until yesterday's announcement, kind of what was that process like
34:25
Speaker 3: to get to this point?
34:27
Speaker 12: Well, you know, I think you have to go back
34:29
Speaker 12: a lot further than that to really capitulate everything that's
34:32
Speaker 12: taking place to get us to where we are today.
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Speaker 12: In the announcement that we made yesterday, we had discussions
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Speaker 12: about our schedule even going back to twenty nineteen, before
34:41
Speaker 12: of Oklahoma Texas even joined the league. I can remember
34:44
Speaker 12: there was a meeting schedule in twenty twenty at the
34:47
Speaker 12: SEC men's basketball tournament where our presidents, presidents and chancellors
34:51
Speaker 12: gather every year, and this was on the agenda to
34:54
Speaker 12: talk about the football schedule. That's when COVID hit and
34:58
Speaker 12: that discussion never took and so things played out. You know,
35:04
Speaker 12: after that din Oklahoma Texas joined the league, and I
35:07
Speaker 12: think there's a natural progression that what the conference expands,
35:09
Speaker 12: you talk about adding games to the schedule, But the
35:12
Speaker 12: initial discussion about adjusting our schedule emanated from talk about
35:18
Speaker 12: wanting our student athletes and our fans to be able
35:22
Speaker 12: to see more teams from around the league. You know,
35:24
Speaker 12: in the old divisional days, he only saw a couple
35:26
Speaker 12: of other teams through other divisions rarely because they they
35:32
Speaker 12: did not rotate through your schedule very often. And so
35:35
Speaker 12: the discussion was, well, how can we get our student
35:37
Speaker 12: athletes on the other campuses are facing other teams more often.
35:41
Speaker 12: That dynamics changed a little bit with the transfer policy,
35:43
Speaker 12: but we still have interest in our fans being able
35:46
Speaker 12: to go to other campuses, go to other stadiums experience
35:49
Speaker 12: new rivalries, and so I think that's where it all started,
35:52
Speaker 12: was even way back then, you know, bringing it up
35:55
Speaker 12: to this year's this year's spring meetings, I think we
35:59
Speaker 12: had to healthy discussions there by the discussions through the
36:02
Speaker 12: ads themselves separately, with football coaches together, football coaches and
36:06
Speaker 12: athletics directors, and then conversations just considered continued after that.
36:11
Speaker 12: So I think it's I think it was an important
36:13
Speaker 12: announcement yesterday. I think it was a look to the
36:16
Speaker 12: future for our athletics directors and our presidences and chancellors,
36:20
Speaker 12: and I think it's good for SEC fans.
36:24
Speaker 5: Yeah, we kind of reading there's been a lot of discussions,
36:27
Speaker 5: certainly on this show and other show and just kind
36:29
Speaker 5: of around the SEC about with this new scheduling, there
36:32
Speaker 5: is going to be three common opponents for every team
36:36
Speaker 5: that's they're going to play every single year. I want
36:38
Speaker 5: to kind of know how that decision making process is
36:41
Speaker 5: gonna kind of kind of unfold, and will each individual
36:45
Speaker 5: team have some sort of input in that final decision.
36:49
Speaker 12: Yeah, there's some advanced lavalries and part of this part
36:54
Speaker 12: of this structure, which is a you know, three annual
36:57
Speaker 12: opponents six sprintaning opponents was to maintain some of those
37:00
Speaker 12: traditional robberies. I think people know who those robberies are.
37:03
Speaker 12: Then there's you know, you know, you have schedule balance
37:05
Speaker 12: as much as you can. You don't want to load
37:08
Speaker 12: up one team with too many difficult annual rivals.
37:13
Speaker 3: Uh.
37:13
Speaker 12: There's there's geography uh involved. I think there's a number
37:18
Speaker 12: of different things, and so that'll that'll that'll play out
37:20
Speaker 12: as we and we go through it, and certainly there's
37:22
Speaker 12: discussions with the schools as well, so that announcement will
37:26
Speaker 12: come up. I see it's already become a parlor game,
37:28
Speaker 12: you know, immediately after that, after the announcement yesterday, A
37:31
Speaker 12: mighty god, who's it going to be? It's gonna be
37:33
Speaker 12: the same as the ones that were announced in twenty
37:34
Speaker 12: twenty two, with it never were any announced in twenty
37:37
Speaker 12: twenty two. There was some discussion internally about who might
37:40
Speaker 12: who it might be, and that discussion kind of took
37:42
Speaker 12: off and a lot of people guessed at what they were.
37:46
Speaker 12: And so you can you can search the internet and
37:48
Speaker 12: find all kinds of people who reported different scenarios. But
37:53
Speaker 12: but none of that, none of that holds right now.
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Speaker 12: So that'll be a big announcement when we have it, obviously,
37:59
Speaker 12: because of the anticipation is already building.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, with that question, I mean we certainly talked about
38:03
Speaker 3: it here today and Glenna and I talking about teams
38:05
Speaker 3: that we had, you know, great games against when we
38:07
Speaker 3: were playing for LSU, and you don't want to see
38:09
Speaker 3: those go away. But I guess the question is, like,
38:11
Speaker 3: when you look at those things, it's hard her because like,
38:13
Speaker 3: do you go to recent memories that like the last
38:15
Speaker 3: ten years, last fifteen, last twenty years of teams that
38:18
Speaker 3: have played and now they're memorable games, or do you
38:20
Speaker 3: go back one hundred years? Just like how far you
38:23
Speaker 3: kind of go back in the thought process of these
38:25
Speaker 3: two teams playing each other because of the history between
38:27
Speaker 3: the two teams.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, and I think you make it more recent, you know,
38:30
Speaker 12: you have some recncy to it to make sure that
38:33
Speaker 12: you're measuring strength of programs in a more recent time frame.
38:39
Speaker 12: And you're right, you know, you go back to your
38:40
Speaker 12: you guys played it, you guys to play at LSU.
38:42
Speaker 12: And so there's a time when LSU's big Robbert it
38:43
Speaker 12: was was old.
38:44
Speaker 10: Miss.
38:44
Speaker 12: There's a time when it seemed like in the nineties
38:47
Speaker 12: it was Auburn. You know, then there's Alabama at the time,
38:51
Speaker 12: there was at the end of the year, there was
38:52
Speaker 12: the Arkansas game. And so you know, who's the rival
38:55
Speaker 12: for every school. And one of the things we're not
38:59
Speaker 12: calling it is permanent opponents because we'll take a certain
39:05
Speaker 12: time period and then relook at it. You know, those
39:07
Speaker 12: those annual rivals could change over the course of time,
39:11
Speaker 12: but we'll look at it and we'll we'll we'll have
39:15
Speaker 12: a big announcement at some point, and I think people
39:17
Speaker 12: take interest in it.
39:18
Speaker 5: So, Herb, what do you think is going to happen?
39:19
Speaker 5: So we got there, there will be nine sec schedule games.
39:22
Speaker 5: What do you think is going to happen to those
39:24
Speaker 5: other three games? They're still going to be kind of
39:26
Speaker 5: the required power for non conference schedule or do you so,
39:31
Speaker 5: do you think that's gonna go away? Or do you
39:32
Speaker 5: think one of the other, like the Group of five
39:34
Speaker 5: game will go away?
39:35
Speaker 4: In a lot of these teams schedule, that's that's.
39:37
Speaker 12: One of the requirements is that you still have to
39:38
Speaker 12: play a team Yeah, yeah, Big ten or Big twelve
39:43
Speaker 12: or Notre Dame. And so I think that you know,
39:47
Speaker 12: that's ten Power Conference opponents for every team every year.
39:50
Speaker 12: I don't think there's another conference in the country with
39:54
Speaker 12: the rigor that already existed in the SEC schedule and
39:58
Speaker 12: then now you had a ninth game continue the Power five,
40:02
Speaker 12: Power four requirement. There's no other conference in the country
40:06
Speaker 12: that has this difficult of a schedule as the Southeastern Conference.
40:10
Speaker 12: I think it's great for fans. It's compelling, compelling games,
40:12
Speaker 12: great interest, and I think that was part of the
40:16
Speaker 12: motivation of our athletics directors and our presence and chancellors.
40:19
Speaker 12: It's looking forward. It's looking to the long term good
40:23
Speaker 12: of the Southeastern Conference, creating value for the league and
40:27
Speaker 12: how we would be perceived in the future and how
40:30
Speaker 12: we compete in the future.
40:32
Speaker 4: I love that. Just real quick on the way out, Herb,
40:34
Speaker 4: we can't thank enough for your time.
40:36
Speaker 3: The official OTB stance is if Lshum Florida play every year,
40:40
Speaker 3: we wouldn't hate that.
40:42
Speaker 12: Okay, all right, we'll factor that into Okay, yeah, if we.
40:46
Speaker 4: Get a vote.
40:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure you know, every year since nineteen seventy one,
40:49
Speaker 3: So we'll throw the facts out there. Herb, you truly
40:52
Speaker 3: are the best man. I cannot thank you enough. I
40:53
Speaker 3: know today is a crazy day for you, So thanks
40:55
Speaker 3: for getting for a couple of minutes here.
40:57
Speaker 12: All right, thanks guys, good luck you see all.
40:59
Speaker 4: Right there he is HERB.
41:00
Speaker 3: Benson, Associate Commissioner of the Southeastern Conference.
41:03
Speaker 4: With a lot of news there. That was great. Yeah.
41:06
Speaker 4: Uh the power for stuff. Love it.
41:08
Speaker 3: There's gonna be some people right now, probably people building
41:11
Speaker 3: that are punching air, just punching it, just so mad.
41:14
Speaker 4: All the smoke are all and a power for opponent.
41:22
Speaker 4: I would love it. Let's play Penn State. Let's do it.
41:25
Speaker 4: Wouldn't that be sweet? Yeah?
41:27
Speaker 3: Go there, you held a wide out situation. They come
41:29
Speaker 3: back here and whatever color y'all want to choose. You
41:31
Speaker 3: can do that too if you want to. Or you
41:32
Speaker 3: can just have a good old Cajun drunk fest. You
41:35
Speaker 3: can do whatever, it doesn't matter. All the good teams.
41:39
Speaker 4: That was a great We appreciate her. Yeah. I like
41:43
Speaker 4: today's visit for him. He kind of gave me a
41:46
Speaker 4: schedule and I was like, we will move our closs.
41:48
Speaker 3: We'll just do that one for you. So yeah, uh
41:51
Speaker 3: so I better listen to us. So on the Florida thing,
41:53
Speaker 3: I'm sure we get a vote. Yeah, I mean he
41:55
Speaker 3: just told commissioners, thank you. You got nervous because he
41:57
Speaker 3: didn't he didn't mention that when he's talking. I know,
41:59
Speaker 3: I know he went to miss and they skipped Florida went.
42:05
Speaker 3: So a couple of things that that did stand out
42:07
Speaker 3: to me, that the power for stuff love that, uh
42:10
Speaker 3: and also like more recent history between the two teams.
42:15
Speaker 4: That's important. It's important bouncing it out. It's not necessarily
42:18
Speaker 4: gonna like.
42:19
Speaker 3: So like two maybe that make a lot of sense
42:21
Speaker 3: to the ones like, hey, we're gonna give you little breathe. Yeah,
42:24
Speaker 3: so like if you're looking at LSU, it might not
42:26
Speaker 3: be Florida, Alabama Auburn. It might be Florida, Alabama or Arkansas.
42:31
Speaker 3: Right so little yeah, good information there from her boot. Yeah,
42:37
Speaker 3: So the biggest takeaway for me was the hey, more
42:40
Speaker 3: recent like so to a Launder's point text A and
42:45
Speaker 3: m now is fully in play because that recently is
42:48
Speaker 3: certainly a thing.
42:52
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42:54
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42:55
Speaker 11: Where Matt picked the game that you did on the
42:58
Speaker 11: opposite But it's a good way not to go over
43:02
Speaker 11: the in your point. But I do think Kansas is
43:06
Speaker 11: going to cover that one. But obviously, you know I was.
43:10
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43:15
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43:37
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43:39
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43:43
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44:43
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44:47
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we could revisit this thing and don't know, six years,
44:57
Speaker 3: eight years, ten years, I don't know that, but he said,
44:59
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